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The robot on the left is the version made in Japan by Horikawa (S.H.) The one on the right is the version made in Taiwan with SJM logo.
Another example of MIT's robotics work, this time its a robotic arm mounted on a caterpillar track body. Both can be pre-programmed or controlled on the fly. Work like this has been put to use in everything from bomb disposal robots to the Mars probes.
My Robot's Misbehaving
My robot's misbehaving.
It won't do as I say.
It will not dust the furniture
or put my toys away.
My robot never helps me
with homework or my chores.
It doesn't do my laundry
and neglects to clean my floors.
It claims it can't cook dinner.
It never makes my bed.
No matter what I ask of it,
it simply shakes its head.
My robot must be broken.
I'll need to get another.
Until that day, I have to say,
I'm glad I have my mother.
--Kenn Nesbitt
Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life.
They were a normal, happy husband and wife.
One day they got news that made Mr. Smith glad.
Mrs. Smith would would be a mom
which would make him the dad!
But something was wrong with their bundle of joy.
It wasn't human at all,
it was a robot boy!
He wasn't warm and cuddly
and he didn't have skin.
Instead there was a cold, thin layer of tin.
There were wires and tubes sticking out of his head.
He just lay there and stared,
not living or dead.
The only time he seemed alive at all
was with a long extension cord
plugged into the wall.
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
"What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"
The doctor said gently,
"What I'm going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender."
The Smith's lives were now filled
with misery and strife.
Mrs. Smith hated her husband,
and he hated his wife.
He never forgave her unholy alliance:
a sexual encounter
with a kitchen appliance.
And Robot Boy
grew to be a young man.
Though he was often mistaken
for a garbage can.
from: Tim Burton - The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Chancellor Richard Carranza and Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez tour the robotics center at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics in Washington Heights in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Friday, July 27, 2018.
CREDIT: Benjamin Kanter/Mayoral Photo Office
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